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Stieg Larsson's international bestseller The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has already been made into a movie in Sweden, but it is almost certainly going to be remade in English by Americans. There's already a producer attached, (Scott Rudin), a director being discussed (David Fincher) and rumors circulating about who might play the female lead, Lisbeth Salander - a tattooed hacker with major issues and loads of unusual sex appeal. Will the part of the reed-thin computer genius go to Natalie Portman? Maybe Kiera Knightley? Kristen Stewart? (See photos of great buddy-cop pairings in history...
...movie, helmed by Danish TV director Niels Arden Oplev, is a much-streamlined version of Larsson's book. (It's also the first of a franchise; cinematic adaptations of Larsson's two sequels were also released in Europe last year.) The basics are there: a disgraced journalist named Mikael Blomkvist (played just right by Swedish star Michael Nyqvist) is hired by an elderly industrialist, Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube), to investigate the disappearance of his 16-year old niece Harriet 40 years ago on a remote island. Henrik believes Harriet was killed by a member of her large and thoroughly...
David Cromer - the Chicago-based director who won acclaim for his recent off-Broadway revival of Our Town - handles all this with sensitivity and solemnity. (This is a real rara avis in New York theater: a play without laughs.) A cast of mostly Americans (among them Mary Beth Hurt and Victoria Clark) conveys the British and Australian milieus with as much authenticity as you're likely to find on these shores. The play is unrelievedly bleak but with a denouement of unexpected hope: a moving, almost revelatory evening of theater, and easily the best new play of the year...
...dinner party with them stumped as to why the lovely person hasn't noticed that their spouse or partner is a total stinker. You ponder, maybe for the first time, the term co-dependency. Mostly you wonder how this pair ended up together. (See the top 10 actor-director pairings...
...Geico puts together a video each year to play at the company's annual employees meeting, which was held in February. Geico employees star in the video and film it, and Buffett has taken part in the shoot for the past four years, says Phil Ovuka, director of creative media services at Geico. Buffett played a DJ one year and a hobo another year. This year, Ovuka wanted to push the envelope a little further. "We thought, What's the most ridiculous getup we could think up for Warren - and thought, Nah, we can't do that," says Ovuka...